[175] Taken from Red. p. 183, where it is given as from Rūmī. See above, p. 6.
[176] Gesta Roman. ed. Herm. Oesterly. Berl. 1872, c. 167. For bibliography of this fable see W.A. Clouston, A Group of Eastern Romances, 1889, pp. 563-566, pp. 448-452.
[177] Book of the Thousand and One Nights, by John Payne, Lond. 1894, vol. v. p. 153.
[178] Ibid. p. 168.
[179] Ibid. p. 199.
[180] In Jüdische Parabeln, vol. 26, p. 359; see also Bacher, Nizāmis Leben u. Werke, p. 117, n. 4.
[181] These episodes are outlined in Hammer, Red. p. 118; see Malcolm, op. cit. i. 55, 56.
[182] We call attention to the fact that the fourth division of this collection (pp. 392-439 in our edition) is made up of poems which really belong to the Weisheit des Brahmanen.
[183] Jackson, Die iran. Religion in Grdr. iran. Phil. ii. pp. 629, 630.
[184] Elliot, Hist. of India, vol. v. pp. 160-175; 324-328.